Briefing Book

Economist, former Obama and Biden CEA, views mine alone

Gopi Shah Goda is a Senior Fellow & Director, Retirement Security Project @ Brookings. She was a Research Associate @ NBER and served as a senior economist in Pres. Biden's Council of Economic Advisers and Gov. Newsom's Council of Economic Advisors.

Jeffery Zhang is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School. He teaches and writes on financial regulation, law and economics, and digital assets.

Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).

UCLA professor and former Chief Economist of OMB. He previously served in the Treasury Department and CEA. NBER Research Associate.

Ernie Tedeschi is a Research Scholar at Yale Law School and a Visiting Fellow at the Psaros Center for Financial Markets & Policy at Georgetown University. He recently served as Chief Economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

Jed is senior fellow at the Peterson Institute and senior advisor at the JPMC Institute. He recently served as Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Commerce Department.

I write about the law, policy, and politics of finance. I'm currently researching, writing, and teaching at Stanford Law School. I've worked at the US Treasury, US Senate Banking Committee, and on the staff of former Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).

Economist, former Biden CEA, Co-Director Urban-Brookings TPC, SF Brookings, Michigan football enthusiast, Amateur Ski bum. Views are my own

Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (acting) & Chief Economist at U.S. Treasury, 2023-25; previously BlackRock, Obama CEA.

The economic analysis policymakers get, from their expert former staffers

Author, After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People. Former White House Council of Economic Advisers. Economics professor, UT-Austin.

Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Predoctoral Fellow

Associate professor at UCSB Bren School and Dept. of Economics. NBER faculty associate. CSIS senior associate. Former WH CEA senior economist. www.kylemeng.com

Senior economist, Economic Policy Institute, studying employment, wages, and economic inequality

Economist at the Economic Policy Institute. Previously Asst. Prof at Penn State. I study labor, education policy & household economic security.

Writing on economics and policy. Views my own.

Senior Economist at the Economic Policy Institute

Economist & lawyer. Professor at Yale Law School: economic and tax policy, infrastructure costs. Formerly OMB Chief Economist. law.yale.edu/zachary-liscow

Former Staff Economist at the Obama Council of Economic Advisers

Lecturer with interests in international trade and macroeconomics at Harvard.

Research Assistant at Brookings, former Biden CEA.

Law professor, pessimistic financial futurist

Dean Spears is coauthor of After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People, teaches at UT-Austin's economics department and Population Research Center, and is Executive Director at r.i.c.e., a nonprofit working in India.

Vani Agarwal is a Research Analyst with the Center on Health Policy at the Brookings Institution.

Helen Levy was a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers in 2010—11, focusing on health care. She is a research professor at the University of Michigan and has a PhD in economics from Princeton.

Associate Professor of Public Policy UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance, Ross School of Business and Non-Resident Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, the Brookings Institution

Chris Bangert-Drowns is a research assistant at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining EG, he worked as a journalist with WPFW-89.3 FM. Chris earned a BA in economics and an MS in applied economics from UMD-College Park.